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Russian president says he was ready to put nuclear weapons on alert during tensions over crisis in Crimea and Ukraine

Moscow was ready to put its nuclear forces on alert to ensure Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said in a pre-recorded documentary aired on Sunday.

Putin also said that Russia had saved the life of Ukraine’s former pro-Moscow president, Viktor Yanukovich, who he said had been in danger after ‘revolutionaries’ seized power following weeks of violent street protests in Kiev last year.

Secretary of State John Kerry said that he still believed it was important to achieve a diplomatic solution for the conflict in Syria and that the negotiations should involve President Bashar al-Assad.

US real estate heir makes what appears to be veiled confession in TV documentary screened hours after he was charged with murder

Robert Durst, the wealthy heir to a New York real estate fortune whose stranger-than-fiction involvement in three mysterious deaths has baffled prosecutors and police investigators across the US for decades, made a veiled confession in a documentary aired on Sunday night that he “killed them all”.

The startling admission, made in a conversation with himself in a bathroom while his interview microphone was still switched on, was made public just hours after new evidence unearthed by the documentary-makers in one of the unsolved cases caused Durst to be arrested in New Orleans and charged with first-degree murder.

Man charged in Ferguson cop shootingMail & Guardian OnlinePolice charged a young African-American man on Sunday in connection with the shooting in Ferguson that wounded two policemen. A Ferguson police officer tries to separate a supporter of Michael Brown (R) from a Ferguson police supporter, outside the ...and more »

Antonio Guiterrez - AKA Lonely - grew up in the USA but agreed to leave to avoid heavy punishment for his gang violence. He joined the notorious 'Autodefensas' in Michoacan, Western Mexico, the vigilante group who expelled drug cartels and police and took control of the area village by village. He's been kidnapped by the cartels once already, but as the government tries to retake control of the region from cartels and Autodefensas, can he protect his family and his region? Is he motivated by taking care of his fellow villagers, or is he just in it for revenge? Continue reading...

ROME — The pope’s surprise announcement of a massive holy festival in December has forced Italian officals to re-evaluate recent threats by jihadist Islamic State militants to attack the Vatican, the Italian press reported over the weekend.Read full article >>

МОSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow invited the U.N. envoy for Syria to a second round of meetings scheduled for the beginning of April between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government, Interfax reported on Monday citing a deputy foreign minister.

A Kurdish military official said on Monday he had evidence Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a chemical weapon against peshmerga forces three times in northern Iraq. General Aziz Waisi, who said his forces were exposed to the chemical, said the insurgents had used chlorine in a December attack in the Sinjar area and in two others in January west of Mosul. The two earlier purported chemical weapon assaults reportedly resemble one claimed Saturday by Kurdish officials who say...

»Global arms trade16/03/15 20:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Global arms trade China has eased ahead of Germany and France to become the world's number three arms exporter after the United States and Russia, a Stockholm-based think-tank s...

»Did Yemen’s Saleh Extort $60 Billion?16/03/15 20:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Recent revelations by a United Nations panel that former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh allegedly took as much as $60 billion through corruption during his many years in power has lef...

»Путин и Украина16/03/15 19:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Uploads by Голос Америки. Путин и Украина Originally published at - http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/media/video/herbst-on-putin/268...

»Where is Putin? | CEPA16/03/15 16:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from [Untitled]. Prescient or preposterous? Vladimir Putin’s absence from public life sparked a frenzy last week. Nobody agreed what was going on, but almost all commentators agreed that it was sign...

»Where Terrorism Research Goes Wrong16/03/15 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story . TERRORISM is increasing. According to the Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland, groups connected with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State committed close to 200 attacks per year between 2007 and...

»Fire Rages At Moscow Landmark16/03/15 06:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A fire broke out at Moscow's 16th century Novodevichy Convent late on March 15. The fire started on scaffolding surrounding the convent's famous octagonal bell tower, whi...

»US Delegation Travels to Cuba15/03/15 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A U.S. delegation travels to Cuba Sunday for a third round of talks between the two countries about re-establishing diplomatic relations and easing economic and travel sanctions imposed d...

»A Russia After Putin - The Atlantic15/03/15 01:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Atlantic A Russia After Putin The Atlantic The Kremlin, whose spokesman Dmitry Peskov has the unfortunate task of insisting nothing is wrong, denies that the Russian president is ...